​​Apache Spark™ Community Sprint!

​​Join us on March 13th (Friday) from 12:00-7:00 PM at the Snowflake Bellevue Office for a Spark community sprint!

​Can’t make it in person? Follow along!

We'll spend the day working on open issues in Spark, fixing bugs, and more! Whether you're an avid user of Spark, a seasoned committer, or completely new to working on open source projects, this day is for you!

​Not sure where to start? No problem! We'll have active Spark community members on site to guide you through the process of contributing to this open source project.

​Lunch will be provided. Feel free to drop in for any amount of time throughout the day; no need to attend for the entire time.

​Note: There is free, convenient parking available on-site.

​Meet Your Mentors

​Holden Karau is a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, an Apache Spark Committer, and PMC member. She is the co-author of Learning Spark (1st ed.), High Performance Spark, Scaling Python with Ray, and several other books on distributed systems and data engineering. She joined Snowflake in October 2025.

​Felix Cheung

​Huaxin Gao is a software engineer at Snowflake and an Apache Spark committer and PMC member. She is also a committer for Apache Iceberg and Apache DataFusion Comet, with contributions spanning query engines, table formats, and distributed data systems.